Rockin’ in Rhythm: Japan’s Battling Big Bands
Jazz was not merely a music to be accepted or reviled, but rather a metaphor for Japan’s participation in global cultural trends.
Jazz was not merely a music to be accepted or reviled, but rather a metaphor for Japan’s participation in global cultural trends.
He asked to be shaved because he knew exactly what was going to happen to his head
When Hideyoshi orders his soldiers to cut off the man’s nose and ears, he fights back
A famous number of theirs compares a girlfriend’s physical attributes to those of a high-performance sports car.
Ichiro has never left his hometown. He has his pick of the local females
Crickets scream at the cosmos… A crocodile ate a countess…
“The guy went to beaches all over the world to take these photos, and they all look the same?”
He doubted that Queen Elizabeth would apologize for the Opium Wars if she visited China
Ishihara helped to mould the era, and the era helped to mould him
Essentially a variation on the Faust story set in the world of office workers and hostess bars, it is emphatically for adults